Re: good snapshot solution

2003-06-22 Thread Hans-Juergen Beie
jw schultz wrote on 20.06.2003 04:06: On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:44:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] After doing some research I found three candidates: - Dirvish - Rlbackup - Rsync_snapshots by Mike Rubel [...] Also, I was wondering if can still share the snapshotted versions of the

Re: rsync backup performance question

2003-06-22 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:42:46AM +0200, Ron Arts wrote: Dear all, I am implementing a backup system, where thousands of postgreSQL databases (max 1 Gb in size) on as much clients need to be backed up nightly across ISDN lines. Because of the limited bandwidth, rsync is the prime

Re: rsync backup performance question

2003-06-22 Thread Ron Arts
jw schultz wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:42:46AM +0200, Ron Arts wrote: Dear all, I am implementing a backup system, where thousands of postgreSQL databases (max 1 Gb in size) on as much clients need to be backed up nightly across ISDN lines. Because of the limited bandwidth, rsync is the

Re: rsync backup performance question

2003-06-22 Thread Ron Arts
jw schultz wrote: You have a couple of points wrong. The receiver generates the block checksums. If you are pushing that would be the server but if you are pulling it is the client. In 2.5.6 and earlier the transmitted block checksums are 6 bytes per block with a default block size of 700 bytes

Re: rsync backup performance question

2003-06-22 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:20:34PM +0200, Ron Arts wrote: jw schultz wrote: [snip] Would it be feasible to have a separate process pre-creating blocksums during the day in separate files (ending in ,rsync)? Or, for example, while writing the changed file, the receiver would precompute and

Re: various rsync: connection unexpectedly closed errors on debian

2003-06-22 Thread wearitdown
When I sync'ed against other servers, my rsync client process always ran without --compress. Nevertheless, I've tried increasing verbosity by 3, and this is what I get: Check the rsync log file. That is where the error message will be. Hi. Okay, on the server I am downloading from, it shows

Re: rsync backup performance question

2003-06-22 Thread Ron Arts
jw schultz wrote: [snip.. and thanks for all your comments] Rsync doesn't perform well on non-local filesystems. Really? Won't gigabit ethernet help for NFS, or maybe Samba? I only have to rsync a relatively low number of files, so no large directory scans. Ron -- Netland Internet Services

Re: any way to get --one-file-system in rsyncd.conf?

2003-06-22 Thread cbarratt
I would like to specify an entry in /etc/rsyncd.conf such that it operates on a --one-file-system basis always. The path will point to a filesystem mount point, but there is another filesystem that is mounted in a subdirectory. I want to back up only those files in the pointed to

Re: any way to get --one-file-system in rsyncd.conf?

2003-06-22 Thread Phil Howard
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:34:17AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I would like to specify an entry in /etc/rsyncd.conf such that it | operates on a --one-file-system basis always. The path will point | to a filesystem mount point, but there is another filesystem that | is mounted in a

Installing rsync as a service on Windows 2000.

2003-06-22 Thread Tiarnan DeBurca
I was looking to install Rsync on a win2k server, the document telling you how to do this (available at: http://samba.org/rsync/nt.html) is fairly out of date and has a couple of mistakes. An updated version of the Rsync on NT document is now available at: